Teaching Guidelines Clause Samples
The Teaching Guidelines clause establishes the standards and expectations for how teaching activities should be conducted within an organization or under a specific agreement. It typically outlines the methods, materials, and conduct required of instructors, and may specify requirements for lesson planning, assessment, or classroom management. By providing clear parameters for teaching practices, this clause ensures consistency, quality, and compliance with institutional or contractual objectives, thereby reducing misunderstandings and promoting effective educational outcomes.
Teaching Guidelines. The expected teaching load is 16 credit hours for bargaining unit tenured/tenure track faculty’s annual workload assignment. This expectation is inclusive of credits for thesis and dissertation advising, ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇- approved credits for academic program coordination, and any externally funded or ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇- approved research credits within allowable limits. Faculty who do not demonstrate research/scholarship/creative activity and service activities commensurate with their academic rank (see 13.1.F.2 and 13.1 F.3 below) shall be assigned additional teaching. Faculty who demonstrate research/scholarship/creative activity and service activity that significantly exceeds levels commensurate with their academic rank may be assigned lower teaching loads. Normally, all tenure-track and tenured bargaining unit faculty will be assigned at least 9 credit hours of teaching each academic year, though grants, credit banking, and other buyouts may reduce the instructional assignment below that level. Normally, all tenure-track and tenured bargaining unit faculty will be assigned at least 6 credit hours of teaching each academic year, regardless of grants, credit banking, and other buyouts. Faculty deemed to be active in research/scholarship/creative activity per their college guidelines may opt to pause their research/scholarship/creative activity and request a temporary increase in their teaching load in lieu of pursuing such activity. Once this temporary assignment has been completed, the faculty member will then be assigned a teaching load commensurate with their prior level of research/scholarship/creative activity. All such plans must be approved in advance by the faculty member’s Department Chair and ▇▇▇▇.